Nicholas: Still 1,000 Without Power In Montgomery County

CONROE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX — After over 5,000 customers in Montgomery County were without power after Hurricane Nicholas brought thunderstorms and high winds through the county in the early hours Tuesday, Entergy Texas has restored power to all but around 1,000 people, according to its outage tracker.

The tracker listed outages affecting 4,619 customers in the county at approximately 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. At 6 p.m., that number was down to 1,006.

The area hardest hit by the outages was around Grand Parkway leading into Porter, where nearly 1,400 people were without power, according to the tracker. Other areas that were particularly affected by outages include parts of Conroe and New Caney. There were several significant power outages along FM 1314 between Conroe and Porter as well. A few smaller power outages dotted around Lake Conroe in Willis and Montgomery.

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Entergy Texas is estimating for most of the outages that power will be restored by 10 p.m. Tuesday night.

"Entergy personnel are working to restore service as quickly and safely as possible," said a statement on the tracker. "The estimated time of restoration could change as all damage assessments are completed or if other storm activity results in additional outages."